HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081457440
Bassin de Cunene
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 3 administrative regions : Cahama, Curoca, Ombadja
Sub-basin area
2 027,3km²
Upstream area
2 027,4km²
Discharge
1,9m³/s
Mean elev.
1 180m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1261.5 km²62.4% of basin
- 757.0 km²37.5% of basin
- 2.0 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
21,9°C
Annual rain
515mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
33mm/an
PET
1 815mm
AET
434mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
106cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)